(from Jeremiah 29:11)
Revealing the Concealed Patterns within God's Festivals
by Mike Bacon
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Listen to Marty and Misha Goetz sing
The Plans I Have for You
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Our Loving Creator has a wonderful Future and Hope planned for all Humanity.
His Plan is contained in an integrated design encoded and hidden in plain sight in the 49 "books"* of the Bible written by over 40 authors spanning 2500 years.
SYNOPSIS
It has been said by various theologians that prophecy is pattern and that “God is a God of Patterns.” This book presents the thesis that the appointments and feast harvests reveal patterns pointing to His Master Plan of Salvation for all humanity—but for each individual in his order and time.
These patterns include the appointments with its festival harvests, agricultural terms, the commonly termed "ceremonial laws" and Old Testament stories. Are these patterns and stories just coincidences? Are they just there for filler material to round out a story? Or is something more to be communicated to us? I think there is!
Harvests are spoken of in the New Testament a number of times and carry several meanings. They can represent people coming into the faith, receiving salvation, judgment, and also receiving God’s blessings and prosperity. There is not just "one" harvest at the end of this "evil age".
The three Old Testament festivals represent three different harvests occurring in Israel: 1) barley, 2) wheat (both of which are made into bread), and the ingathering of many crops of which the primary crop pattern is 3) grapes -- which are made into wine. Does bread and wine sound familiar? As in “communion”?
The book also investigates the definitions and entomology of certain Hebrew and Greek words and mistranslations by respected theologians and writers which will reveal potentially new understandings. The influence of pagan mythology and the secretism of the early church which have significantly influenced today's prevalent Biblical theologies are also explored.
These three harvests carry concealed prophetic implications within the meanings of its words and metaphors. The harvests are to be understood in the light of the agricultural background from which they were created. The three harvests reveal The Future and Hope.
The relevance and meaning of these patterns will ultimately be for each one to consider and explore–because some things are still a mystery until Christ (Yeshua in Hebrew) returns. Nevertheless, these festival patterns should give believers encouragement and even greater affirmation that God is and has always been in control and that we should be diligent in overcoming and in our personal relationship with our Creator.
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* All the 39 "books" of the Old Testament were originally written on 22 scrolls and the New Testament in 27 books. 22 + 27 = 49 = a significant Scripture prophetic number.